Affairs & Double Lives 23 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Hidden affairs and secret second lives that give investigators both suspects and motives.
- Season 1 · Episode 12
Russian Love Poem
A wealthy bisexual businessman is found strangled in a leather harness, and his long list of lovers leads the detectives to a pair of Russian women and the man who loves one of them.
- Season 3 · Episode 5
Tangled
A doctor is beaten to death and his wife raped in their home, and the investigation runs through his estranged son and his affairs to a mistress and her downstairs neighbor.
- Season 3 · Episode 11
Monogamy
A pregnant woman survives an attack in which her baby is cut from her body, and the case against her husband turns on whether the child was ever legally born alive.
- Season 4 · Episode 4
Lust
The murder of a public health doctor in Central Park points first to the HIV patients she tracked and then, after a second killing, to a serial killer, until her husband’s secret life surfaces.
- Season 4 · Episode 14
Mercy
A murdered infant pulled from the Hudson leads to a privacy fight over student health records and then to a mother who ended her terminally ill baby’s life.
- Season 5 · Episode 15
Families
A 16-year-old prep-school student is found dead and pregnant, and the baby’s DNA reveals a family secret that ties two New York households together.
- Season 7 · Episode 15
Manipulated
The murder of a lawyer who secretly danced at a strip club points to her lover, until the detectives find his paralyzed wife pulling the strings.
- Season 8 · Episode 9
Choreographed
A model’s mysterious death in Central Park points first to her philandering choreographer husband, then to the jealous husband of his lover, who has been tracking his wife with an implanted chip.
- Season 8 · Episode 20
Annihilated
A murdered bride-to-be’s fiancé turns out to be a married father posing as a spy, and the case ends in a family massacre.
- Season 9 · Episode 4
Savant
The only witness to a brutal attack is a girl with Williams syndrome, and her father, the obvious suspect, is protected by the FBI.
- Season 9 · Episode 9
Paternity
A nanny’s murder exposes a marriage built on secrets and a boy whose father is not his biological parent, while Kathy Stabler’s baby arrives after a car crash.
- Season 9 · Episode 18
Trade
A pregnant woman’s murder entangles a wealthy coffee trader, his son and the son’s lawyer in a web of money, jealousy and a bribed juror.
- Season 11 · Episode 18
Bedtime
A journalist’s murder brings back a 1970s serial killer’s signature, and one of his supposed victims turns out to have been killed by someone else.
- Season 12 · Episode 19
Bombshell
The stabbing of a seemingly ordinary executive leads Benson and Stabler undercover at a sex club, where a pair of grifters prey on lonely married men.
- Season 12 · Episode 22
Bang
A baby left in an alley leads SVU to his adoptive mother’s fiancé, who secretly sabotages condoms to father children with as many women as he can.
- Season 13 · Episode 18
Valentine's Day
A wife’s rape and kidnapping, witnessed by her husband over a video chat, turns into a case against the supposed victim.
- Season 14 · Episode 7
Vanity's Bonfire
A toddler’s kidnapping by a woman claiming to be her birth mother uncovers a forged adoption and an affair that a Supreme Court candidate wants buried.
- Season 14 · Episode 23
Brief Interlude
A Canadian mother on her first trip alone is found beaten and raped in Central Park, and the search for her attacker uncovers the nightlife she kept from her family.
- Season 15 · Episode 6
October Surprise
When a mayoral front-runner asks Barba, his oldest friend, to help a mutual friend accused of attempted rape, SVU uncovers the candidate’s sexting and hush money.
- Season 17 · Episode 8
Melancholy Pursuit
When a 15-year-old girl vanishes after swim practice and is found dead, a partial DNA match leads SVU through the secret children of a dead man.
- Season 24 · Episode 13
Intersection
A man posing as an EMT rigs traffic lights to cause crashes and rapes injured women at the scene, until a third crash turns deadly.
- Season 26 · Episode 9
First Light
A video of a professor’s wife in bed with a stranger she cannot remember leads SVU to an online forum and to the man who arranged the encounter.
- Season 27 · Episode 20
Old Friends
A woman is raped during a reunion sleepover with her oldest college friends, and every man in the house becomes a suspect.